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Skeletal remains to be sent to US for carbon dating
Apr 27, 201411:08 PM
Sri Lanka Police today said it will send skeletal remains found in a mass grave in the central province to a laboratory in the US for carbon dating tests.
“We received a letter yesterday from the laboratory in Florida that they are ready to conduct the carbon tests on the human bones found in the Matale grave,” police spokesman SSP Ajith Rohana said.
The carbon tests are required to determine the age of the bones discovered in the central district of Matale.
In November 2012, over 150 skeletal remains were found as the construction workers dug the ground to build a new wing for the Matale hospital.
The Marxist JVP claimed that the victims were their activists who had been extra judicially executed during a rebellion in 1987-90 and have demanded an independent investigation.
